I would suggest that the Dome, Wembley the Olympics and just about anything else shows how London centric both Tories and Labour have been and are. In a sensible world the national stadium for football would be somewhere in the Midlands and as mentioned the dome should have similarly been in Brum or some such.
I have a plan that all politicians should have to live in sackcloth and ashes, London be allowed to sink into the Thames and Scotland always win every world cup

jjmac wrote:hmmm, some very good points, after all ... who needs tourists any way, make em travel (grin).

lol

Although to be fair, wembley is likely to be mostly used by _natives_, if it ever gets finished of course. So a location which has good network links and close to a high population density that will use it would be good, midlands (Birmingham) would probably have been a good location. Birmingham has good rail links, NEC, indoor arena, a mid sized airport etc

It is a hard call. I tend to go for decentralisation. When ever there are major sports events in cenntral Sydney it makes life a total pain for people that live in the inner city. But with out the facilities there isn't much point to decentralising the venue. By decentralising i mean out of the city of course. But then, if it is something i'm interested in i don't want to traps 50 k or so to go and see it. Only because i know the trains are hopeless. A hard one to fix